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Aristotle was a great philosopher and discovered philosophy.
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Jansen invented the first microscope, so we could see cells.
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Jan Baptist van Helmont was the founder of the pneumatic chemistry.
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Robert Hooke discovered the cellular composition of cork and made the word cell.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek polished lenses, which improved magnification.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered "animacules"
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria from saliva in his mouth.
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Lorenz Oken said that all living organisms originate from and consist of cells.
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Robert Brown first noticed that plant cells all contain a nucleus.
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Matthias Schleiden discovered that plants were made of cells.
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Theodor Schwann discovered that animals were made of cells.
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Albrecht von Roelliker realized that sperm cells and egg cells are also cells.
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Rudolph Virchow said that all living things came from other living things.
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Louis Pasteur discovered that bacteria spreads diseases.
